Multimodal LLMs papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Multimodal LLMs went from 1,226 papers in 2023 to 5,192 in 2026, roughly 4.2x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Multimodal LLMs work: 3,319 papers from 2023 to 2026, 30% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 35 in 2023 to 596 in 2026.
• Among the 4 topics under Trending Systems, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, AI Agents, is up 12x versus 4.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026$\text{A}^3$-VLA: Automatic Perception-Guided Attention Alignment for Robot Manipulation
• ICML 2026[CLS] is Not Enough: Multi-Label Recognition via Patch-Level Inference and Adaptive Aggregation
• ICLR 2026A Balanced Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Commonsense Abductive Logic
• CVPR 20263D Space as a Scratchpad for Editable Text-to-Image Generation
• NeurIPS 2025$\Delta \mathrm{Energy}$: Optimizing Energy Change During Vision-Language Alignment Improves both OOD Detection and OOD Generalization
• ICML 2025Adapting While Learning: Grounding LLMs for Scientific Problems with Tool Usage Adaptation
• ICLR 2025$\gamma-$MoD: Exploring Mixture-of-Depth Adaptation for Multimodal Large Language Models
• CVPR 20252DMamba: Efficient State Space Model for Image Representation with Applications on Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Image Classification
• NeurIPS 2024A Concept-Based Explainability Framework for Large Multimodal Models
• ICML 2024A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
• ICLR 2024Alt-Text with Context: Improving Accessibility for Images on Twitter
• CVPR 2024Data-Efficient Multimodal Fusion on a Single GPU
• NeurIPS 20234M: Massively Multimodal Masked Modeling
• ICML 2023$\pi$-Tuning: Transferring Multimodal Foundation Models with Optimal Multi-task Interpolation
• ICLR 2023A Primal-Dual Framework for Transformers and Neural Networks
• CVPR 20233D Concept Learning and Reasoning From Multi-View Images
• NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
• ICML 2026$G^2$-Reader: Dual Evolving Graphs for Multimodal Document QA
• ICLR 2026A Comprehensive Information-Decomposition Analysis of Large Vision-Language Models
• CVPR 20263D-IDE 3D Implicit Depth Emergent

All Multimodal LLMs papers

1,401 papers, page 14 of 29

651. ICLR 2026LLMs Process Lists With General Filter Heads
652. ICLR 2026LLMs Struggle to Balance Reasoning and World Knowledge in Causal Narrative Understanding
653. ICLR 2026lmgame-Bench: How Good are LLMs at Playing Games?
654. ICLR 2026Local Linear Attention: An Optimal Interpolation of Linear and Softmax Attention For Test-Time Regression
655. ICLR 2026Locality-Attending Vision Transformer
656. ICLR 2026Locality-aware Parallel Decoding for Efficient Autoregressive Image Generation
657. ICLR 2026Log-Linear Attention
658. ICLR 2026LogiConBench: Benchmarking Logical Consistencies of LLMs
659. ICLR 2026LogiStory: A Logic-Aware Framework for Multi-Image Story Visualization
660. ICLR 2026Long-range Modeling and Processing of Multimodal Event Sequences
661. ICLR 2026Long-tailed Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
662. ICLR 2026LongHorizonUI: A Unified Framework for Robust long-horizon Task Automation of GUI Agent
663. ICLR 2026Look Carefully: Adaptive Visual Reinforcements in Multimodal Large Language Models for Hallucination Mitigation
664. ICLR 2026LoopFormer: Elastic-Depth Looped Transformers for Latent Reasoning via Shortcut Modulation
665. ICLR 2026Lost in Tokenization: Context as the Key to Unlocking Biomolecular Understanding in Scientific LLMs
666. ICLR 2026LSA: Layer-wise Sparsity Allocation for Large Language Model Pruning Based on Minimal Linear Reconstruction Error
667. ICLR 2026LucidFlux: Caption-Free Universal Image Restoration via a Large-Scale Diffusion Transformer
668. ICLR 2026LVTINO: LAtent Video consisTency INverse sOlver for High Definition Video Restoration
669. ICLR 2026LycheeDecode: Accelerating Long-Context LLM Inference via Hybrid-Head Sparse Decoding
670. ICLR 2026M$^2$-Miner: Multi-Agent Enhanced MCTS for Mobile GUI Agent Data Mining
671. ICLR 2026M$^3$E: Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Mixture of Macro and Micro Experts
672. ICLR 2026M3CoTBench: Benchmark Chain-of-Thought of MLLMs in Medical Image Understanding
673. ICLR 2026Many-for-Many: Unify the Training of Multiple Video and Image Generation and Manipulation Tasks
674. ICLR 2026MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
675. ICLR 2026Map as a Prompt: Learning Multi-Modal Spatial-Signal Foundation Models for Cross-scenario Wireless Localization
676. ICLR 2026Map the Flow: Revealing Hidden Pathways of Information in VideoLLMs
677. ICLR 2026Mapping Post-Training Forgetting in Language Models at Scale
678. ICLR 2026MARC: Memory-Augmented RL Token Compression for Efficient Video Understanding
679. ICLR 2026MARS-Sep: Multimodal-Aligned Reinforced Sound Separation
680. ICLR 2026MASAM: Multimodal Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Heterogeneous Data Fusion
681. ICLR 2026MaskInversion: Localized Embeddings via Optimization of Explainability Maps
682. ICLR 2026MaskPro: Linear-Space Probabilistic Learning for Strict (N:M)-Sparsity on LLMs
683. ICLR 2026MATA: A Trainable Hierarchical Automaton System for Multi-Agent Visual Reasoning
684. ICLR 2026Math Blind: Failures in Diagram Understanding Undermine Reasoning in MLLMs
685. ICLR 2026MathFimer: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning by Expanding Reasoning Steps through Fill-in-the-Middle Task
686. ICLR 2026Matting Anything 2: Towards Video Matting for Anything
687. ICLR 2026MC-Search: Evaluating and Enhancing Multimodal Agentic Search with Structured Long Reasoning Chains
688. ICLR 2026MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
689. ICLR 2026Measure Twice, Cut Once: A Semantic-Oriented Approach to Video Temporal Localization with Video LLMs
690. ICLR 2026Medical thinking with multiple images
691. ICLR 2026MedLesionVQA: A Multimodal Benchmark Emulating Clinical Visual Diagnosis for Body Surface Health
692. ICLR 2026MedVR: Annotation-Free Medical Visual Reasoning via Agentic Reinforcement Learning
693. ICLR 2026MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents
694. ICLR 2026Memento: Toward an All-Day Proactive Assistant for Ultra-Long Streaming Video
695. ICLR 2026Memory-Free Continual Learning with Null Space Adaptation for Zero-Shot Vision-Language Models
696. ICLR 2026MemoryVLA: Perceptual-Cognitive Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
697. ICLR 2026MergeMix: A Unified Augmentation Paradigm for Visual and Multi-Modal Understanding
698. ICLR 2026MergeTune: Continued Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models
699. ICLR 2026MeSH: Memory-as-State-Highways for Recursive Transformers
700. ICLR 2026Meta-Adaptive Prompt Distillation for Few-Shot Visual Question Answering

FAQ

How many Multimodal LLMs papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

11,209 in total: 1,226 in 2023, 1,716 in 2024, 3,075 in 2025, 5,192 in 2026.

How many Multimodal LLMs papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 1,366 Multimodal LLMs papers, versus 1,074 the year before.

How many Multimodal LLMs papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 1,401 Multimodal LLMs papers, versus 816 the year before.

How many Multimodal LLMs papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 1,051 Multimodal LLMs papers, versus 390 the year before.

How many Multimodal LLMs papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 1,374 Multimodal LLMs papers, versus 795 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Multimodal LLMs papers?

NeurIPS, with 3,319 papers from 2023 to 2026.